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Mary Robinson

Mary Robinson is a former president of Ireland and the United Nations’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Nelson Mandela remains for me the exemplar of bold and ethical leadership.

Only bold, collective action can turn back the hands of the Doomsday Clock

Daunting global agenda demands urgent action from the world’s leaders

  • Mary Robinson
4 min read
A child displaced by drought holds her nose as she walks past the rotting carcasses of goats that died from hunger and thirst on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia. People from across Gedo in Somalia have been displaced due to drought conditions and forced to come to Dollow, in the southwest, to search for aid. Somalia has suffered three failed rainy seasons in a row, making this the worst drought in decades, and 6 million people are in crisis levels of food insecurity. The problems are being compounded by the rising costs of food prices because of the Ukraine war. Hence, hundreds of thousands of livestock have died from hunger and thirst. (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
AFGHANISTAN

Hungry for action campaign: Time for a food and finance revolution

The world must act now because the food system is broken and families from Mozambique to Ireland don’t know where their next meal will come from

  • Mary Robinson
  • Graça Machel
5 min read